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The bObsweep UltraVision Robot Vacuum Really Sucks (In a Good Way)
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May 29, 2025
You're not still manually vacuuming or, worse, manually emptying your robot vacuum every time it does a pass through your home or office, are you? And your vacuum is smart enough to minimize the impact of obstacles with an AI-powered vision system, yes? If not, you'll really want to check out this review of the powerful and sleek bObsweep UltraVision robot vacuum and mop by homeowner and tech expert Dave Taylor. Your dog might not be a fan of the device, but it sure works well with fur and excess dust too, along with being able to mop and vacuum quite efficiently. Check it out at: https://www.bobsweep.com/ultravision Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 1:08 Meet the bObsweep UltraVision Vacuum 2:40 Self-Emptying Base 3:37 Vacuum Docks and Empties 6:11 Mopping Demo 8:30 Vacuum Demo 9:06 App Demo 11:03 Map Sneak Peek 12:53 Review and Commentary 15:40 Pricing and Conclusions #bobsweep #vacuum #robot #robotvacuum #robovacuum #ultravision #askdavetaylor
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you'll live a cleaner house with this
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smart robot vacuum and MOB let's check
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it
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out Dave Taylor here and my house gets
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dirty I have pets they just bring in
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dirt and they just are a source of fur
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and dust and dander and all sorts of
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stuff so it's just inevitable you go to
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someone's house where they have a pet
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and there's Pet fur around so
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you need to clean but honestly who wants
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to be cleaning especially on like a
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daily basis if you have a dog like we do
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who sheds a lot well it can be a real
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pain so enter robot vacuums and here's
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the tradeoff until recently if you had a
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robot vacuum it was a lot less powerful
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than an actual handheld vacuum and the
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problem with that is that meant that you
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really still had to do manual
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vacuuming enter the latest generation of
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really powerful robot vacuums and that's
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what this is this is the Bob sweep
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ultravision self-emptying Robot vacuum
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and mop yes it does everything but let's
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start with its spec first this has an
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8,000 Pascal suction capability which is
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enormous for a robot vacuum and that
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means that it can get dirt in carpet it
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can really pick up so much but of course
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the first question is is my dog chill
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with it so let's cut right to some
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action footage and see how he handles
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when the vacuum shows up in his little
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world of
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[Music]
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existence okay so he's not a huge fan of
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it which I understand that's okay cuz it
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still does a great job now let me show
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you a little bit about it and then I
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have a couple of super fast running
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demos to show you its mopping and
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vacuuming capabilities but first off
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8,000 pcal suction and the last Bob
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sweep I looked at this is worth
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mentioning is I reviewed the Dustin
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which is a very similar design but that
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maxes out at 5,000 pascals so this is
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honestly what like 50% more powerful
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than their previous powerful vacuum so
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that's great most importantly what this
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big honken thing is here and let me just
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show you has a really nice user guide
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I'm going to just put that out of the
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way but this is the self-emptying base
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if I open it up you can see there's a
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vacuum bag in there so every time this
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comes up to the base it actually sucks
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all the dirt out of of the vacuum into
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the vacuum bag and then once every so
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often so far I've found maybe 3 or 4
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months I guess I don't have a huge
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amount of dust but every so often you
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get a notification that it's full or you
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can just feel that it's full and you
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swap it for another one and how nice is
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this Bob sweep includes four extra
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vacuum bags which by my calculation
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should take you at least a year if not
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two years into ownership before you have
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to worry about it
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so let me show you real quick what it
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looks like when this guy comes up and we
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actually let the base pull all the dust
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and dirt out of the
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unit speaking of the vacuum bag it's a 6
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L vacuum bag with odor filtering
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charcoal so for some reason this picks
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up something that is a little smelly or
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become smelly maybe child's cereal or
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something like that then you will not
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have this end up being stinky which is
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so nice now it's Auto charging which
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actually I think all of them are now and
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it has a scheduler in the app the app is
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super sophisticated we'll get to it I'll
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give you a demo of that too um stare and
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obstacle detection using their on device
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vision camera in fact you can see the
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camera right there and what this does is
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this lets it notice and avoid obstacles
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that would otherwise be a problem cuz
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you really the the nightmare with these
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robot vacuums is that they just pick up
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everything including wires and shoelaces
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it can be chaos so having this be a
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little more smart is actually a huge win
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it's what honestly even like if you
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could trick your six-year-old into
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vacuuming a lot of six-year-olds like
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vacuuming actually but they're still not
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going to try to vacuum over the cat's
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tail or something this would actually
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recognize that there are obstacles and
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try to avoid them I do not recommend
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having the cat's tail immediately in
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front of it that is something that is
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not
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recommended but it also uses a lot of
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really sophisticated Technologies this
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part actually is a lidar detection
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system and it uses slam or Quantum slam
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mapping and what happens is as it
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cruises around your floor it's actually
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building a map of how your house is laid
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out and it's smart enough that you can
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actually switch between floors I do this
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on a frequent basis where I'll just pick
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one of these up and just put it upstairs
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and let it vacuum up there cuz we don't
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get a lot of traffic upstairs in my
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house so it doesn't need to be as
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frequent as the main floor but every so
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often it just says huh this is new okay
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I'll just start a new map that's fine so
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so no big penalty to that which is nice
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now I'm going to show you that let's see
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let's go through a tour of all of the
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hardware but you know what before that
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let me show you how this does with
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mopping so let's just do a demo of its
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mopping my kitchen floor and I've sped
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this way up cuz it tends to go kind of
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slowly this is not something for the
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impatient but you just turn it on and
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then like a you know couple hours before
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you get home you come home it's all done
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everything's cleaner so let's get into
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that
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mopping it's not exactly a perfect back
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and forth as you would expect from a
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human doing mopping but it does
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ultimately get every spot which is all
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that I really care about and in terms of
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using the mop then on the back if we
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pull this piece out then here's where
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you put the water in and it actually has
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a pretty good capacity for water which
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is important because if you have a large
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surface then you're going to need a lot
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of water and then the other step is that
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you have this mop and it comes with a
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spare mop cloth but you basically just
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put this on the
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vacuum and then make sure in the app
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that you enable mopping and that's
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really all there is to it now let's go
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through to some more Hardware here so
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this is the base unit and it has that
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removable section this plus this it
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actually I can just show you um it's
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just sort of a neat setup goes like that
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and we would be ready to go and then
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there's a power cord in the back you
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can't really see so this needs to be
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plugged in because it's actual base unit
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this is how the it charges and this is
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how it empties the vacuum out so it does
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need power and and then also included in
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the box is a spare mop a cleaning Gizmo
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if you end up getting like really long
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hair Tangled Up In It a spare
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filter a spare Edge brush and four of
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these vacuum bags so there's a lot and
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then when you open it up it has this
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quick start guide which will in fact to
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get you started pretty darn quickly it
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is really easy to get this thing up and
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paired with your phone and working in
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fact let's go to a quick demo of my
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phone but and the app but before we get
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there let me show you how it actually
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vacuums on carpet and again I'm going to
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speed this up quite a
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[Music]
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[Music]
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bit well it did knock the shoe but it
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didn't actually like have a problem with
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with it so I take that as a marginal
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success of the vision system but let's
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jump into the app and this app's
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available for iPhone and Android and if
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I just launch it then you can see I am
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right here and it's ready to clean and
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it's showing me that it has a 79% charge
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so you know if I know that it takes me
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75% of my charge to do a full vacuum I
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could either wait till it gets to 100%
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or I can just let it go because one of
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the settings is to say if you have to
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stop and recharge before you're done
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once you're charged go back and finish
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the job so in fact let's go into
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settings and cleaning preferences is
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where all the fun stuff is so the
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self-emptying you can have it do it
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every single time or you can do it a
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little less or you could give it an
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intensity boost then you can specify how
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much and how powerful the vacuum is you
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can specify mop mode what I highly
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recommend is when you're not using mop
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mode take the mop attachment off and
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empty the water out of the container and
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then leave mop in off position so you
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don't want to have it permanently with
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water in it cuz it will get a little
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tiny bit of water leakage when it just
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sits on its pad of course that's why it
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has the pad but my experiences is that I
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vacuum almost daily and then I mop once
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a week or so so it's you know 2 or 3
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minutes of fiddling with with it and
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then it's all good to go and then when
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you're done you take this off and it's
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as easy as literally just popping it off
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and then I usually just leave it up here
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to dry and be ready for the next time I
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use it now back to Here auto resume is a
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setting so I can decide that I really
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would like to actually have this thing
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turn on and go back and finish the job
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object detection Edge detection you can
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mute it if you don't want to hear it
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talking to you which I have not done um
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and then there's software update
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probably the most important thing is
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firmware updates and then you get to
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these major controls and the first one
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let's show you map and this is the main
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floor of my house and it's pretty
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entertaining I actually sort of messed
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with it by putting a lot of things out
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and you can see that in my dining room
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it has found a lot of obstacles that's
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what those squares are and what I did
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was I let it map my main floor and then
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I went into the editor and it was a
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little tedious but I put the dividers in
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to create each room gave each room a
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name and then the blue and white grid is
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actually no mop zones and you can have
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discontiguous mop zones so my kitchen on
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the top right in sort of a light green
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and then my entryway on the bottom in
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light blue those are both M surfaces and
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it can handle moving from a mopp surface
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to one one that's mop through a carpeted
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area and it won't try to mop the carpet
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which obviously would not be good so
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it's very smart and one of the other
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benefits of actually setting it up by
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room is then if I go back here and I go
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to Quick clean I can specify that I just
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want it to clean a specific room which
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is fantastic so I might have it vacuum
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in the kitchen twice a day cuz it tends
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to be the dirtiest room there's the
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schedule there's the history and at any
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point you can actually tell it to go if
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you don't want to wait for the schedule
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and while it's going if you're like uh
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you know I just want to just not hear it
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I want to just turn it off just tap on
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charge and it'll stop and it'll go back
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to the base and charge and it'll empty
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depending on your emptying preferences
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and that's all there is it's that easy
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to work with so I have to say all in all
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I really like this device I mean
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I have to say that I never vacuum my
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house anymore and my house is the
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cleanest House of any house I visit um
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sorry kids including your houses because
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I endlessly have my robots doing the
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work and to me that's the point of
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having these devices is that they're
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doing the work for you and then because
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they're doing that and all this does is
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vacuum and mop it has no other purpose
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in life it's perfectly fine vacuuming
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twice a day if that's what I wanted I
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don't want it that frequently but if you
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just really want to have a nice clean
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environment this is so nice to have one
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of these and of course having this with
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its 8,000 pascals of suction means it's
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going to pick up a whole lot more than
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other competing vacuum systems that's a
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really important number to be aware of
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and in terms of Dimensions well it's 13
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in by about 4 in tall and it does have
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low object detection so theoretically it
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should not be getting caught on like the
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edge your sliding glass window and stuff
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it certainly manages mine without a
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problem it is Alexa and Google home
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compatible it's
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82b and I mean honestly it feels pretty
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darn light in terms of carrying it
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upstairs or downstairs and then just
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pushing the button and saying just do
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your thing vacuum and then pick it up
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and bring it back to the base easy super
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easy so 2-year warranty 5year subsidized
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repairs if something happens after those
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2 years I mean this is kind of a
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no-brainer it is spendy but this is
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honestly these sort of devices are game
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changers and this is very much the best
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of all the robot vacuums I've ever used
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and this is the one that now lives on
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the main floor of my house and I promise
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you when I'm done with this recording
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all of this is going to just go back on
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the floor and I'm going to have it turn
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on and I'm going to have a vacuum while
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I drive away to meet some friends for
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lunch how perfect is that so definitely
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this is one to check out if you would
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like to have a cleaner living space and
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of course it can work in a retail store
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it can work in an office environment you
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can also set it up where it might just
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be your own office that it vacuums
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because you've set up virtual barriers
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in the app which makes it really easy so
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I leave the door to my office open but
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this is not allowed in my office cuz
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there's too darn many wires and I just
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have these sort of nightmare visions of
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it saying hey what are these 400 wires
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so it's just blocked but I can leave the
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doors open because the software controls
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the device exactly the way you would
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like so definitely really really nice I
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am going to ask you to subscribe to my
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and I certainly hope it was give me a
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thumbs up if there's something you think
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I missed or should have demoed then
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please let me know I mean I feel like
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this was pretty comprehensive
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okay this whole setup is the Bob sweep
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ultravision self-emptying Robot vacuum
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and mop comes in brushed stainless or
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carbon steel this is the carbon color
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the stainless steel is also very
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attractive and it is a pretty spendy
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$1,129 at Bob sweep. comom however I
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will encourage you to check out the
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internet to see if you can find it at a
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discounted price through another retail
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Channel I found that prices varied quite
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a bit but of course if you get it from
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Bob sweep you know you've got the real
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thing from the real company and
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everything's all good to go but you know
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you might wait for a sale or something
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$1,129 is pretty expensive for a device
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but if you have made or cleaning service
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how much are you paying over the course
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of 3 to 6 months for someone to come and
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vacuum your floor and mop your kitchen
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right so that's probably what you should
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be looking at when you're thinking about
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this price so that's everything I got I
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got to put everything back together so
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it's going to start cleaning my floor
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again so I'll hope to catch you in my
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next video
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